Apprentices: Older Workers
(asked on 4th September 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions of 5 July 2017, Official Report, column 143WH, on apprenticeships opportunities, how many women over 59-years started apprenticeships in each year since 2010-11.
The table below shows apprenticeship starts by gender for learners aged 60 and over for the available academic years (2011/12 to 2015/16).
Data for the 2016/17 academic year shows starts covering the year reported to date - August 2016 to April 2017.
| 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/2017 |
| Full year | Full year | Full year | Full year | Full year | Reported to date |
Female | 1,650 | 1,520 | 1,170 | 1,690 | 1,780 | 1,780 |
Male | 2,030 | 1,740 | 1,320 | 1,730 | 1,780 | 1,640 |
Total | 3,680 | 3,260 | 2,480 | 3,410 | 3,560 | 3,420 |
Figures rounded and may not add up to totals